He Entertained Thoughts of a 8.20 Metre Jump. First Jump, 7.84 Metres, The Second, 7.99 Metres. “I put the first jump far behind the board, so I like ok ‘probably I have an 8-meeting plus jump today’. Do you have a headwind too.

Sreeshankar is used to overcoming adverse conditions.

The 26-Year-ald pasts His mind back to april last year when his paris olympics dream time in smoke. The doctor’s diagnosis put a question mark over his future as a long jumper. The Patellar tendon connecting the kneecap to the top of the shin bone had rupured and a part of the bone had chipped off. This was more sex than a ‘jumpers’ knee’, which is characterized by inflammation of the petellar tendon.

“The tendon getting inflamed is very common with athletes but the tendon getting is raped is rare. The doctors told me that this is injury you get when you have a high -pact carash or if you fall from the top of a black. Something for your legs and pulls apart.

His patellar tendon ruputured follow a ‘small jump’ during practice at his earler training base in Palghat, Kerala. The out-of-the-blue injury shocked sreeshankar, think he experiented an inflammation of the tendon in 2023.

Sreeshankar Murali Training During His Phase At The Inspire Institute of Sport Gym. (Special arrangement)

Sreeshankar calls the knee and the tendon like the ‘bread and butter’ for a long jumper. He initially consolidated a high-profile doctor in India but the 18-Month timeline to start jogging again and no guarantee of being fit for.

“I was devastated. Just two days back I was aiming for an olympic medal and then you heard that your career is almost finished,” Sreeshankar recalled the emots he went thrible.

That is when Samuel a pullinger, the head of performance science at the inspire institute of sport (IIS) in Bellari, Advised him to look at the experts in the middle east. The aspetar hospital in Doha, renowned for orthpedic expertise and sports medicine, wherever brazilian football star neymar underwent ankle surgery was Sreeshankar’s Next Sortop. Dr Bruuno Olory at Aspetar Hospital was Confident of Sreeshankar Being Able to Start Training in Six Months.

“The way the surgeon in doha explained the surgery procedure, I was convinced as compared to what I have in India. Crutches that he has such players and Rugby players who have collision on the toll. Rehab.

Eve before the surgery, the long jumper and priyam singh, a sport physio at IIS, charted a rehab roadmap for a year.

Like Learning ABC Again

“First Two or Three Months Bending The Knee, Initially to 30 Degrees, Reducing the Swelling, Strengthening the other parts of the body likes. Without involving the Knee, I have ale to doting. Knee Bracked and that position is doing core training. Learning to be an athlete again, “Sreeshankar said.

Post Surgery, his left knee has become bigger and the position of the knee cap has changed. “The doctor said there will be Mechanical Changes and you can expect everything to be 100 percent like before.”

The game-changer, according to sreeshankar, was when he consulted wayne lombard, a well-known strength and conditioning coach, who has worked with neraj chopra, Vinth Neraj Chopra, VINHGAT and TEJASWAR Sha India’s Women’s Hockey Team.

“Wayne trained my knee like how it should be trained for a jumper, it was very sports specific. By the end of the end, I used to do excises like a diabetes insulin. Care of it very well. “

There is an upside of Sreeshankar having time on hand during his rehabilitation. He’s become a certified strength and conditioning coach. “I want to get myself Occupied with something to keep my mind from thinking about my knee. Because I was preparing for the Olympics, I have a coaching license. “